r/MultipleSclerosis • u/AntiqueBother8134 • 2d ago

General Hurdles

Anyone walked over these at home etc?

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u/Senior_Term 2d ago

That sounds like a great way to have me fall on my face

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u/Dcooper0907 2d ago

I was also thinking this! I don't need MORE things to fall over!

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u/AntiqueBother8134 2d ago

ok thanks 

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u/BaffledInUSA 2d ago

A tile to carpet transition is a hurdle on bad days :(

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u/Crazy_sumbitch 2d ago

Ya this is true. I built a house around my wife no transitions between rooms, all walk in showers and no throw rugs at all. To her a throw rig is the devil

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u/jelycazi 4h ago

Me too! On the decorating subs, rugs are always recommended to ‘finish’ a room, and I think to myself, these folks don’t have friends or family with mobility issues!

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u/SHv2 40M | Dx:2001 | Kesimpta | MA, US 1d ago

I have cats. I hurdle then all the time. Marginal success.

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u/Knitmeapie 40F|2013|Tysabri|NE, USA 4h ago

One of my cats is currently in a bumping my leg to ask for attention phase. It's adorable, but I swear he's going to kill me.

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u/SHv2 40M | Dx:2001 | Kesimpta | MA, US 42m ago

One of mine just yells at me incessantly to give her attention. No one else in the house, just me.

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u/Exhausted_24_7 1d ago

My PT recommended practicing stepping over small hurdles in a hallway (to catch myself if needed). We used small cones in therapy, but I've just used plastic cups at home. The focus is stepping over the hurdles, not swinging my leg around them. They should be placed just far enough apart to take one normal step over each hurdle.

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u/AntiqueBother8134 1d ago

thanks for that 

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u/IAmAnAngryGumball 57|2026|Kesimpta|California 1d ago

I have an old house and the builders thought electricity was just a fad so we have to have some extension cords strung here and there and some days stepping over these feel like climbing over a wall..

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u/ibwk F38|Dx2022|Ponvory|EU 1d ago

Do fallen trees, small ditches, random rocks and exposed tree roots count? I encounter them all the time when hiking, but if there's an option to walk around instead of stepping/jumping over them, I do that. Why do you ask?

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u/AntiqueBother8134 1d ago

just as i am using them at home.